Supply Chain Research

The British automotive industry has set out a broad range of plans for Brexit. Jaguar Land Rover, part of Tata Motors, will pull forward five days of plant outages in the U.K. as well as adding five days additional downtime. That follows similar plans from Honda and BMW. JLR had previously indicated it could pull production from the U.K. altogether – as Nissan has done with its X-Trail SUV and Groupe PSA has threatened to do. Cutbacks may not be needed given U.K. car exports already fell 9.3% year over year in 4Q. JLR meanwhile has seen healthier growth in exports to the U.S. which rose ...